Life on a desert islan 荒岛生活

Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is wretched. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few us have had the opportunity to find out.

Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.

7. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.

要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。

语言点1:句子结构分析:like Robinson Crusoe作方式状语，修饰动词Live。Waiting for a boat…作伴随状语，其中的which引导定语从句，修饰boat。

语言点2:either…or…的意思是“要么…要么…”。Starve to death的意思是“饿死”。

8. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few us have had the opportunity to find out.

也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。

语言点:句子结构分析:这句话是there be句型，非常恰当地对上文进行了总结。

9. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.

最近有两个人在一座珊瑚岛上呆了5天，他们真希望在那儿再多呆一些日子。

语言点1:句子结构分析:who引导定语从句，修饰men，表示“…的人”。

语言点2:wish后接宾语从句，该定语从句使用虚拟语气。